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Newcastle Advocate Sept 1895

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No Title - Sunday Chronicle (Perth, WA : 1897 - 1899) - 14 Aug 1898

Edward Lockwood, who plays forward for West Perth, hails from Geelong. He started his football career in 1891 with the Barwon Juniors, and in 1893 he joined the Marlybone team who that season won the Junior Premiership of Victoria. In 1894 he played senior football with ...
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Read this bit in the Perth FC history book (Alan East 2005)
about their '76 premiership ruckman Dean Herbert"

"He could have really gone on with if he'd stayed
we only got him for one year on the promise of
releasing Rob Wiley to Richmond the next year
and as soon as the season was up Herbert went home .. and
later went off the footy rails unfortunately "
-Yovich

later played bunch of games for st kilda
what would went off the footy rails mean ?
anyone have a recall of this player?

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Newcastle Sun May 1940

more Kensington Oval:

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TWO MEN PLAY A STRANGE FOOTBALL MATCH - SYDNEY, June 20. - The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1956) - 24 Jun 1937

A remarkable football match wb played at the Kensington oval yesterday. When the Australian Rules first grade players of Newtown and Sydne ...
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AUSTRALIAN RULES. - ONE-MAN TEAMS FARCE - Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954) - 20 Jun 1937

THERE is bound to be trouble in the Amen corner at the next League meeting over the extraordinary and quite unconstitutional procedure adopted by Sydney and Newtown clubs yesterday at Kensington Oval. ...
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Another example of the two player rule. last round 1937

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Football. - ROVERS FAIL TO QUALIFY. AUSTRALS v. MUMBERKINE SEMI-FINAL NEXT SUNDAY. - The Weekly Gazette (Goomalling, WA : 1924 - 1946) - 3 Sep 1937

As was expected, the match at Goomalling last Sunday between Rovers and Dowerin attracted plenty of interest, for on it depended the ...
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"As it turned out, the match at Goomalling was the only fixture played to a finish ; by a mutual arrangement at Jennacubbine the Wongan Hills and Mumberkine teams each fielded only two players and after scoring level declared a draw and then came to Goomalling.
Jennacubbine journeyed to Konnongorring but owing to receiving news that one of their player's (Hazelbloom) father had died in the city, abandoned the match."

All these causes contributed to make a large attendance.
 
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Daily Tele august 1933

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12 Aug 1933 - "AUSTRALEAGUE" TRY-OUT - Trove

Just as a sort of work-out before the conference last night, Queensland Australian Rules men and some Rugby League men played an ...
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FUSION POSSIBLE IN A FEW YEARS - Set of Rules Adopted for Consideration MAKING CHANGES GRADUALLY - The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) - 12 Aug 1933

The proposed fusion between Rugby League and the Australian code was carried a step further last night, when the ...
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CHARGE OF MURDER MADE AGAINST A FOOTBALLER - W. H. OLIVER ARRESTED Renmark, Tuesday. - Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954) - 23 Jun 1925

During the progress of a football match at Berri on Saturday an altercation is said to have taken place between William Harrold Oliver, a former Port ...
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DEATH OF JOHN RURCELL. - HAROLD OLIVER ACQUITTED. - Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931) - 12 Sep 1925

Mr. Acting Justice Richards and jurors' concluded the hearing of the trial in the Criminal Court on Thursday, September 3, of William Harold Oliver, ...
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killer said:
Read this bit in the Perth FC history book (Alan East 2005)
about their '76 premiership ruckman Dean Herbert"

"He could have really gone on with if he'd stayed
we only got him for one year on the promise of
releasing Rob Wiley to Richmond the next year
and as soon as the season was up Herbert went home .. and
later went off the footy rails unfortunately "
-Yovich

later played bunch of games for st kilda
what would went off the footy rails mean ?
anyone have a recall of this player?

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Features prominently in the highlights here (number 20) of an early 1980 game against Richmond which was probably his best game for the Saints when he kicked 5 goals.
 

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NTFA flog Claremont June 1949

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NTFA WILL TEST CLAREMONT AT PARK TO-MORROW - Thrilling Game Likely - Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) - 24 Jun 1949

VIGOROUS duels in the packs, brilliant aerial feats, forward cohesion and commendable understanding on all parts of the field should characterise the clashing of Claremont (W.A.F.L.) and a strong combined N.T.F.A. side on ...
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NORTH OUTPLAYS CLAREMONT IN BRILLIANT WIN - Keymen and Rovers Shine - Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) - 27 Jun 1949

Aerial supremacy, winning rovers and good systematic play were the main factors in the N. T. F.A. team's 71-point win over Claremont (Western Australia) at York Park on Saturday. The home team gave a fine exhibition of teamwork. ...
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The Wild West

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BEER AND BRAWLS AT BULLSBROOK! - Disgusting Conduct of Football Hoodlums fights, Vandalism and Filthy Language n Closer Police Watch Necessary for Sabbath Disturbers who Invade Country Towns - Mirror (Perth, WA : 1921 - 1956) - 31 Aug 1929

A team from the city went to Bullsbrook to play football. As a sideline they kicked the licensee of the hotel in &e ribs, tore his telephone off the wall, slit his spare tyre and ...
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Clarification:
"Finlay and Stoneman" were building contractors in Perth.
The name of the team on other articles is Metropolitan FC
 
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ABC Robert Muir Article:

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The persecution of Robert Muir is a story football doesn't want to hear

A decade-long campaign of racial abuse pushed St Kilda's 1970s star Robert Muir to the point of despair. Russell Jackson spoke to the man who football wiped from its Indigenous history.
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PNG v All Australian Aboriginal team 1973

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Good win to PNG in rules game - Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (Port Moresby : 1969 - 1981) - 8 Oct 1973

The Australian rules match between Papua New Guinea and the Australian aboriginal side was all that it promised to be in Port Moresby. A crowd estimated ...
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Dangerous ground 1950s

Brisbane Carnival 1950

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CARNIVAL GROUND DANGEROUS - Gravel Strip On Wings, Goalbase - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) - 19 Jul 1950

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--I have just inspected the most primitive metropolitan football ground I have ever seen--and 16 Australian national football Carnival games are to be played there in the next 11 days. ...
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Rush Job for Fire Brigade ! - The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) - 20 Jul 1950

BRISBANE, Wednesday,-- The fire brigade may be called out to pump off the water now lying on Brisbane ...
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Players Wallow In Sea Of Mud - The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) - 20 Jul 1950

BRISBANE, Thurs: By the time Western Australia and South Australia play in the football carnival tonight the Exhibition Oval will be churned into a sea of mud. ...
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Mud Fear; Rules Men Inoculated - Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) - 29 Jul 1950

Eight members of the Australian Amateurs team, which competed in the all-Australian National football championships in Brisbane this ...
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Theberton 1948
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Churchett has jaw hurt in fall on gravel - The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954) - 28 Aug 1948

Colin Churchett, State and Glenelr goalsneak, sustained a probable fractured Jaw and a deep, long gash underneath ...
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